Gema Peñalosa Madrid

Madrid

Updated Wednesday, March 27, 2024-16:55

  • Interior Two agents die after being run over by a drug boat in Barbate: "Is the Civil Guard on that shitty boat?"

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"

They are coming for us

" and "

it is coming here

," the Civil Guard agents warned each other in a climate of great tension, while urging each other to take out their weapons to defend themselves, moments before a drug boat ran over their boat on last February 9 in

Barbate

(Cádiz), killing two agents and wounding two others.

In the video recorded by the agents' GoPro cameras, which is part of the summary and to which EL MUNDO has had access, it is observed how the crew of the drug boat tried to ram the Civil Guard boat repeatedly

while

the agents tried to stop them. You can also hear how they, aware of the extreme danger of the situation they faced, gave each other instructions on how to act: "

Take out the gun

" and "

shoot in the air

," they ordered each other.

The tension was very high. The agents, vigilant against the movements of the drug boat, alerted each other to the approach of the boat. "

One with his eyes behind him

," warned an agent. "Careful back," pointed out another. The recording was made by the agents with a camera attached to their uniform.

Late in the afternoon of February 9, a drug boat ran over a

Civil Guard

boat in the

Port of Barbate

(Cádiz), killing two agents. The first of those murdered was

David Pérez

, an agent of the

Rapid Action Group (GAR)

, married with two children. 43 years old and from Barcelona, ​​he had been stationed in Navarra since 2011. The second deceased agent was

Miguel Ángel González

, 39 years old, a native of San Fernando (Cádiz), with a partner and a daughter. He belonged to the

Special Group of Underwater Activities (GEAS) , whose base is located in the

Navarra

Civil Guard Command

.

Eight

people were arrested in relation to these events and six of them - the crew of the drug boat that ran over the civil guards - were imprisoned. The other two detainees, two men who went in a car to Sotogrande to look for the others, were provisionally released with charges after testifying before the judge investigating the case.